Complete, utter panic at the idea of having to deal with people. Not really an ideal situation on an overcrowded spaceship, but I'm pretty sure a lot of it came down to the sheer amount of sensory input Gorgons have going on.

And I'm sorry for your loss. It... it weighed me down for a long time. And no matter what, I think that dynamic might be key to me being pulled into a given overlay - she was barely a footnote in space, but there were kind of bigger things going on there. [That was also the first time he infiltrated after he really started processing the closure he'd been given.]